Publications of Fr. Smith

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Sold by Fr. Smith

  • Saller, William. Meanes to prevent perishing. Or, The usefulnesse of the saving knowledge of God. Discovered in these particulars; I. The blessed tendency the knowledg of God hath to bring men to salvation. II. The one-ness of the Father, Son, and Spirit. III. The excellency of Christs person. IV. The excellent nature of eternal life. By W.S. a servant of the Lord Jesus. London: printed, and are to be sold by Fr. Smith, in Flying-Horse Court in Fleet-street, 1658. ESTC No. R207616. Grub Street ID 83977.

Printed for Fr. Smith

  • Bunyan, John. Sighs from Hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Discovering, from the 16th of Luke, the lamentable state of the damned. And may fitly serve, as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment. With a discovery o the usefulness of the Scriptures, as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of Hell. The sixth edition. By John Bunyon. London: printed for Fr. Smith, at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, [1680?]. ESTC No. R173224. Grub Street ID 66869.